Category: Infrastructure

Windows Performance Monitor (PerfMon) is likely the most useful tool (together with our DynamicsPerf package) to monitor and diagnose performance problems related with your Microsoft Dynamics AX infrastructure and, in general, for any software running on Windows operating systems. Given its importance, is surprising how many people is not using it properly or, even worst, is not using…

Your organization’s deployment of Dynamics AX is going to be one of the most important applications in your enterprise (if not, it is the most important application). It is absolutely critical to the health of your business that a sound backup and restore strategy is in place for your implementation of Dynamics AX. Ensure that…

In this blog post, I would like to summarize the best practices to ensure High Availability (HA) for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3. This has been a critical subject for many customers because Dynamics AX is a mission-critical business application meaning that any downtime impacting end users will result in financial loss. Business continuity doesn’t come for…

Since Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 was launched in 2011, hundreds of Premier customers engaged Premier Field Engineering team to provide guidance on new Dynamics AX 2012 infrastructure, especially when upgrade was executed from legacy versions such as Dynamics AX 2009. Today, most of our customers are live and look for optimization of their existing infrastructure, they need to better justify cost associated with IT capacity and they…

The number of resources regarding PowerShell with AX, at our disposal, is so small and it is so little we can do with them, this is a topic that I would like to increase awareness starting an open discussion. I will try to bring to the blog scripts that have been helping me to optimize…